I'm wondering what further responses I'm likely to receive about this. It's
only been posted for 3 days, but are other list members who haven't checked
the list lately ever likely to see it now that it's been buried under a pile
of more recent postings? Do people generally read several weeks backlog of
postings?
On Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:49 AM Peter Shute wrote:
Hi, sorry if this is an
inappropriate request. I'm a non bird-watcher
wanting some specific information about pelicans around Melbourne.
Every day I see dozens of pelicans flying either
north-east or south-west over my house, near the Mount Saint Joseph
Wetlands
in Altona, Victoria (Melways ref 54 C10). Generally they are flying
north
east in the mornings and south west in the evenings, but it can vary.
I
assume they're flying from where they sleep to where they feed.
Judging
from the direction they're flying in, they could be moving between
Cheetham
Wetlands and the lower Maribyrnong, but I'm not in a position to
check if this is right. I can't believe that that many pelicans would
go
that far to feed there, but where else could they be going?
So:
- where do they come from?
- where are they going?
- does the whole colony go there, or do they feed elsewhere as well?
- am I seeing the same birds coming and going, or am I just seeing
birds
transferring occasionally between two areas?
- do I live under a sort of flight path? How wide could this flight
path
be?
- do they nest where they sleep?
- if not, where, and when?
Thanks,
Peter Shute
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